Events

Paper call is now on-going. The deadline of abstruct submission will be on December 15, 2015. The conference will be the final event of Prof. Akihiro Iwashita's (UBRJ Leader & Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University) presidency.

ABS Japan Chapter officer, Fuminori Kawakubo (Chuo Gakuin University) will be hosting the 4th Border Studies Tokyo Seminar on July 2nd from 15pm to 18pm at Chuo University Surugadai Memorial Hall near Ochanomizu Station. Akihiro Iwashita will be delivering the keynote speech titled, "Border Studies Today" followed by ABS Japan chapter member Yukio Maeda (Soka University) who will present his work titled, "The Birth of International Society and Hollowing out Effect: Geopolitical Re-construction of Michel Foucault's Lectures".

This event will be hosted by UBRJ as well as co-hosted by ABS Japan Chapter and KUBS. For inquiries, please contact Fuminori Kawakubo at: kawakubo[at]cc.cgu..ac.jp (Please change [at] to @). Please note that all presentations will be delivered in Japanese.

July 25-29, 2016 SRC-HOPS Summer School (Summer Institute, Hokkaido University)The Slavic Eurasian Research Center and the Graduate School of Public Policy at Hokkaido University are delighted to announce that the summer school on border studies (within the framework of the Hokkaido University Summer Institute) that will be hosted in Sapporo from July 25-29, 2016. The Slavic Eurasian Research Center has hosted the summer school on border studies in the past from 2010 to 2014 as part of the Global COE project "Reshaping Japan's Border Studies." This year's summer school will be hosted as part of the Hokkaido Summer Institute, which is a program that brings together distinguished scholars and our faculty members to provide an educational experience to students from across Japan and around the world. It will allow participants to expand their knowledge of subjects previously open only to students of the university.

The two courses on border studies that will be available are as follows:

UBRJ organizes Session 1 "Transition or Not among Germany's Neighbors" on December 8, 2016. You can see the whole program of the two-days international symposium on the SRC website. A registration is necessary to join the symposium.

Program of Session 1 "Transition or Not among Germany's Neighbors" (10:00-12:00, December 8):Papers & presenters: "Signs of deterritorialization?: Linguistic Landscape at the Germen-Polish border" KIMURA Goro-Christoph (Sophia University) "German-Polish border from the Systemic Transformation until European Integration of present-day"Dagmara JAJEŚNIAK-QUAST (Europan University Viadrina) "The Danish-German border region: Caught between systemic differences and re-bordering. Difficulties of integrative cooperation in a pacified European BOrder Region" Martin KLATT (University of Southern Denmark)Chair: KOJIMOTO Hideo (Jissen Women's University)Discussant: FUKUDA Hiroshi (Aichi University of Education)

NIHU Area Studies Project for Northeast Asia, Slavic-Eurasian Resarch Center, Hokkaido University will host the international symposium in Kitakyushu City, titled "There Goes the Neighborhood: Increasing Tensions in Cooperative Northeast Asia." The distinguished Northeastern Asian researchers from abroad will take part in the symposium. The following are some of the presenters: Yong-Chool Ha (University of Washington), T. J. Pempel (University of California, Berkeley), Paul Evans (University of British Columbia), Elena Barabantseva (The University of Manchester), Natalia Ryzhova (Far Eastern Federal University), Yang Cheng (East China Normal University) etc. Pre-registration is necessary to join the symposium. You can register yourself (name, affiliation and E-mail address) from here.

The final version of the symposium program can be downloaded fom here.

Center for Asia-Pacific Future Studies, Kyushu University NIHU Area Studies Project for Northeast Asia, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University With the Cooperation of Association for Borderland Studies Japan Chapter